Roundup

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: Norwich University
  9-20-17 (date accessed)
  

  Infographic of the Week: The Do's & Don'ts of Peace Negotiation

  Norwich University’s guide to understanding when peace negotiations succeed.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  9-19-17
  

  The Worst 1st Year of Foreign Policy Ever

  by Melvyn P. Leffler

  Most presidents struggle in their first year as commander in chief. But Donald Trump got tired of winning before he started.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  9-17-17
  

  Mark Lilla Is Getting Identity Politics All Wrong

  by Joshua Zeitz

  Appealing to voters' tribal instincts is a time-honored American tradition. Because it works.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  9-19-17
  

  America Wasn’t Built for Humans

  by Andrew Sullivan

  Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-18-17
  

  America has forgotten the value of the humanities at the moment it needs them most

  by Katherine Pickering Antonova

  The challenges this country faces are a direct result of abandoning the humanities — and only the humanities can help us solve them.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-18-17
  

  There are women who back the KKK and Neo-Nazis, too

  by Arica L. Coleman

  Blaming 'Bad Dudes' Masks the Role of Women in the History of White Nationalism

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-28-17
  

  The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee

  by Eric Foner

  Whatever the fate of his statues and memorials, so long as the legacy of slavery continues to bedevil American society, it seems unlikely that historians will return Lee, metaphorically speaking, to his pedestal.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9-15-17
  

  James Burnham mutated from firebrand revolutionary to National Review co-editor

  by Alan Wald

  Today he is getting a second life all over the conservative press.

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• SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
  9-18-17 (accessed)
  

  Give Peace a Chance

  by Maurice Isserman

  A review of the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary.  Conclusion:  It's anti-revisionist (the war was wrongheaded). But it's also anti anti-war. 

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• SOURCE: Newsday
  9-18-17
  

  All-or-nothing politics belittles us all

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Its hallmarks are the complete denigration of your foes and a refusal to give any ground even when confronted by facts that don’t fit your point of view.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-18-17 (accessed)
  

  How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency

  by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

  The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  9-14-17
  

  Is Diversity Tearing the United States Apart?

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  If America’s set of values becomes a pick-and-choose potpourri, there is no unity. And then America will certainly become yet another one of history’s casualties of diversity.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9-14-17
  

  The United States Was Responsible for the 1982 Massacre of Palestinians in Beirut

  by Rashid Khalidi

  Washington had explicitly guaranteed their safety—and recently declassified documents reveal that US diplomats were told by the Israelis what they and their allies might be up to.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9-14-17
  

  Video of the Week: An interview with the photographer who took the picture of the Sharpeville massacre that changed history

  by Fiona Macdonald

  Sixty-nine men, women and children died and at least 180 were injured when police fired at a crowd of protestors in a township in South Africa.

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• 9-14-17
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

• 
• SOURCE: Politico
  9-13-17
  

  Is America Still a ‘Nation of Ideas’?

  by Jedediah Purdy

  Warring tribes or united by principle: Donald Trump’s presidency forces a question we haven’t had to answer in generations.

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• SOURCE: Vietnam Full Disclosure
  9-11-17
  

  Video of the Week: Dick Cavett’s Vietnam

  Examine the Vietnam War and its impact through interviews on “The Dick Cavett Show.”

• 
• SOURCE: Politico
  9-11-17
  

  The Man the Presidency Changed

  by Scott S. Greenberger

  What a forgotten commander in chief can teach Donald Trump.

• 
• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-11-17
  

  How 9/11 triggered democracy’s decline

  by Jeremi Suri

  The attack spawned wars to export democracy abroad, while degrading it at home.

• 
• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-12-17
  

  The cost of coastal capitalism: How greedy developers left Miami ripe for destruction

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.